Volume 18 , Issue 1

1933, July - Barrow Gang Gets Away From Polic

It was in the Macon Chronicle-Herald, Macon, Missouri, dated 28 July 1933, Friday, page 1, that we found this article concerning "Barrow Gang Gets Away From Police." Texas outlaws my have been hiding in Wyoming.

Found on Newspapers.com

Perry, IA., July 28 (1933) -- Marvin (Buck) Barrow was sinking rapidly and was not expected to live through the day, attending physicians for the notorious Texas outlaw said this afternoon.

Denver, Colo., July 28 (1933) -- Three members of the Barrow gang, one of them a woman, Texas outlaws wanted in four murder charges, had succeeded in slipping through police lines to a Wyoming hideout, or were in hiding here today, Denver police and U. S. Department of Justice agents believed.

The fugitives, Clyde Barrow, 22, leader of the trio, and another man, believed to be Jack Sherman or Hubert Bliegh, and a woman, Bonnie Parker, alias MRs. Clyde Bell, were expected in Denver last night.

Barrow's brother, Marvin, was wounded seriously Monday night at Dexter, Iowa, in a machine gun battle with a sheriff's posse. His wife, Mrs. Blanche Barrow was captured. The gun battle followed a previous exchange of bullets in Platte county, Missouri, when the gang escaped officers after wounding three deputies.

The fugitives last were seen at Stockton, Kanas, on U. S. Highway 40 Wednesday night, police were advised by John A. Dowd, Salt Lake City, U. S. agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of investigations for this district.
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